Weird question but ... hand sanitiser

[Jarvis3]

Here is a pic of the soap they use in the bathrooms....my friend loves the scent and wanted to find out what type it was.

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This was from October and they had the same stuff in January. I am pretty sure they use the same stuff on all the ships.

MJ

Here is explicit info on this item:

https://safetydata.ecolab.com/svc/GetPdf/?cntry=US&langid=en-US&sid=913996

 

[Jarvis3]

So true. Hand sanitizer or wet wipes is a requirement in our family after touching buffet utensils! [UGH, the things I have seen -- like the kid on Carnival who came in off the pool deck and was washing his hands at the soda station using the water button!!!]

Has anyone been seen taking their own latex gloves to handle the common utensils?

 

[Dug720]

Has anyone been seen taking their own latex gloves to handle the common utensils?

I would hope not, as many people have allergies to latex and touching the utensil after someone had with latex gloves could be really bad. Especially since latex is not something you typically have to think of with food as most food-prep places that wear gloves use latex-free for that very reason (allergies).

If you're going to be so paranoid as to take your own gloves to use at the buffet, PLEASE get latex-free ones.

 

[mmouse37]

Here is explicit info on this item:

https://safetydata.ecolab.com/svc/GetPdf/?cntry=US&langid=en-US&sid=913996

Thanks!!!

MJ

 

[FigmentSpark]

Okay, really, unless you have an autoimmune disease, this is just taking things too far.

Do you wash your hands every time you touch your desk at work? How clean is your steering wheel after someone else drives or after you've been shopping? Do you wipe that down every time? What about the utensils in a restaurant that a server touched, possibly just after itching her nose or arm? Do you use a stir stick from Starbucks that's from an open container? Do your fingers accidentally touch two other stir sticks that you don't take? How about those sugar packets and creamers that might have fallen on the floor when they were being refilled?

Life happens. There are germs everywhere! We do our best, but unless you are very sickly, your body will fight things off. If touching the serving utensils is gross, how about the glasses, that might have been touched by someone other than you? And really, do you know what goes on behind the kitchen walls where the food is being prepped? You don't.

I've seen a baker at a bakery near my place put his product on a pan, check his phone, then take freshly baked buns off another pan for sale. If it happens there, it happens on a ship or in restaurants across the country. You can't keep every germ away from you unless you never eat out or go anywhere.

I totally get using the wipes and washing your hands and I hope that all the kitchen workers do the same. But I'm not going to be paranoid about every germ around. Now if I see someone sneeze on the food or drop something and put it back, I will say something. I've told kids not to pick up food off the floor or to get a new plate when they didn't know any better. But I can't worry about every single thing. Otherwise, just stay away from buffets.